rotten lime dismantle

[Stephen Blair]

hi mate, i would like to say you have taken all this advice like a pro, you have had the guts to put up your vid and man enough to take a few pointers. if this is any reflection on your skills as a climber/cutter you will go far. when i was your age i thought i knew everything. and it held me back a fair bit until i was willing to listen. good on you mate:001_cool:

[tommer9]

hi mate, i would like to say you have taken all this advice like a pro, you have had the guts to put up your vid and man enough to take a few pointers. if this is any reflection on your skills as a climber/cutter you will go far. when i was your age i thought i knew everything. and it held me back a fair bit until i was willing to listen. good on you mate:001_cool:

 

[Mark Bolam]

Think the lads have covered all the bases, but it was a good quality vid.

 

What sort of helmet cam was it mate?

[atree]

all the arb talk critics are out 2nite.

[tommer9]

all the arb talk critics are out 2nite.

 

We circle like vultures keeping a good look out for the dead and dying.....

[testcricket01]

hi mate, i would like to say you have taken all this advice like a pro, you have had the guts to put up your vid and man enough to take a few pointers. if this is any reflection on your skills as a climber/cutter you will go far. when i was your age i thought i knew everything. and it held me back a fair bit until i was willing to listen. good on you mate:001_cool:

 

thanks well no one is perfect and never will be but haveing people point out what im doing wrong is good so i can try sort it out and work safely thanks

[testcricket01]

Think the lads have covered all the bases, but it was a good quality vid.

 

What sort of helmet cam was it mate?

 

thanks, its a vio POV1.5 sports helmet camara works really well for anything with helmets but it is very expensive to buy something round 500quid is i remember right

[Stephen Blair]

thanks well no one is perfect and never will be but haveing people point out what im doing wrong is good so i can try sort it out and work safely thanks

 

you got the tree down safely and you didnt hurt yourself, anything else is a bonus in this game, it just means now you will be minimising the risk to yourself.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just a little pointer, not critisism of the original post.

 

For anyone using such as a vehicle to pull over large lumps, especailly on a tree showing basal decay, you must be careful on guaging how much pressure you are exherting on the stem.

 

Remember the stem is a lever, if you pull a given force on that lever, the longer the lever the more the force at the base. A small force on the top of a 40ft stem will exhert tremendous pressure at the bottom.

 

The base or soil level of the stem becomes a fulcrum point and theoretically, 100kg of force applied 40ft up a stem can be as much as 4000kg at the base.

 

Not good with basal decay.

 

I personally only ever pull over lumps I'm cutting with a rope by hand. Unless it's a felling cut and the whole stem is coming over.

 

Be very careful using techniques above, you really do need a good understanding of the forces involved.

[tommer9]

Very good point dean, well said.